Title: Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum, or : The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described ...
Identifier: arboretumetfru03loud (find matches)
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843
Subjects: Trees; Shrubs; Botany; Botany
Publisher: London : J. C. Loudon
Contributing Library: California Academy of Sciences Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California Academy of Sciences Library

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1514- ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 1308 PART III.
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¥ S. b. 1 vulgaris facm. Hort. has pale green young shoots, slender, with an angular twist above the axil of each leaf, and large stipules. It is the most common weeping willow in the neighbourhood of London, and flowers in June. If S. b. 2 Napoleons, Hort. has round shoots, generally reddish, and the leaves are without stipules. It is of very vigorous growth; and there " are a number of plants of this kind in a brickfield close to the Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell; one at the Marsh Gate, Richmond, near the Poorhouse; and one at the Ferry, near Ham House. Mr. Castles's son, Mr. George Castles, says there are also some by the canal side, near Brentford." The tree at Richmond, when measured for us in November 1836, was 60 ft. high, and the diameter of the trunk was 3 ft. 3 in. ¥ S. b. 3 crisjm Hort.; S. annularis Forbes in Sal. Wob.y No. 21., with a fig. of the female ; our jig. 21. in p. 1606.; and the plate of this tree in our last Volume. The ring-leaved Willow. — Leaves lan- ceolate, acuminate, serrated, curled, or twisted, glabrous, and glaucous beneath. Young twigs erect, pubescent at the points. Stipules half-heart-shaped. Ovary ovate, glabrous, and sessile. Stigmas notched. (Sal. Wob.y p. 41.) The preceding year's branches are pendulous. A garden production, of uncertain origin, easily dis- tinguished from the common weeping willow (S. babylonica), by the crowded mass of its young twigs, and its curled leaves. The tree does not appear as though it would attain the same height as the species. The catkins of the ring-leaved willow appear in May. The plant of this variety in the Horticultural Society's Garden, and figured in our last Volume, was, in 1834, 17 ft. high. Statittir.% ofthe Sprrirx. Salix balrt/Mnica in the. Environs of London. There arc many immense treCJ on the hankH of the Thames, and in villa gardens where the soil is moist, from .00 ft. to 60ft. nigh, v.;♦ 11 bead 900 or 80 ft. in diameter. In the Horticultural Society's Garden, in 1834, two planted, were 18 ft. high. At Mount Orore, Hampitead, 4 years planted, it ii IS ft. high. babylonica South qf London, in Deronabire, ir. Byttocb J'ark, 12 yean planted, it is 24 ft. I U igh ( '-tt-u;*-, 10 yearn planted, 20 ft. high, In Dorsetshire, at Melltury Park, 20 years

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